character set Last modified: Monday, January 27, 2003
A defined list of characters recognized by the computer hardware and software. Each character is represented by a number. The ASCII character set, for example, uses the numbers 0 through 127 to represent all English characters as well as special control characters. European ISO character sets are similar to ASCII, but they contain additional characters for European languages.
•E-mail this definition to a colleague• For internet.com pages about character set . Also check out the following links! Data Representation  This is Chapter 1 of Randall Hyde's book, "Art of Assembly Language." It describes the binary and hexadecimal numbering systems, binary data organization (bits, nibbles, bytes, words, and double words), signed and unsigned numbering systems, arithmetic, logical, shift, and rotate operations on binary values, bit fields and packed data, and the ASCII character set. ISO Coded character sets home page Official JTC1/SC2 (Coded character sets) site. ISO Universal Multiple-Octet Coded Character Set home page Official JTC1/SC2/WG2 (UCS) site.	Data Formats ASCII character control character DBCS localization Unicode Give Us Your Feedback Shopping character set Products Compare Products,Prices and Stores Shop by Category: Office Supplies 74 Store Offers Toys 448 Store Offers